BAKING INDUSTRY
INVESTIGATION OF COSTS By Telegraph—Press Association AUCKLAND. December 2. To determine whether adjustments in the price of flour will be necessary, in order to compensate for the increased costs under which bakers are working, an investigation is being carried out in the baking industry by officers of the Department of Industries and Commerce. This fact was learned to-day when inquiries were made in Auckland as to the truth of the rumour that the price of bread was on the point of being increased. The rumour was found to have no foundation. It is stated that the definite policy of the Government, in whose hands the matter lies, is to avoid increases in the price, and bakers have been officially advised that there will be no increase. Bakers are anxiously awaiting the result of the investigation, stating that the price of bread to-day is a penny a 21b loaf lower in the main centres than it was in 1931, while wage rates are higher.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21210, 3 December 1938, Page 4
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